In This Week’s Podcasting News: Webby Award Winners Announced, and More

In this week’s podcasting news we have the Webby Award winners; Rogue Ameoba CEO discusses his software’s role in the prehistory of podcasting; and Freakonomics host Stephen Dubner looks forward to the medium’s ubiquity.

Audio Hijack Software Let People Roll Their Own Podcasts

I’m a big fan of Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack Pro and Fission audio software for MacOS. I think they’re great tools for podcasters working in MacOS.

I’ve used Audio Hijack countless times to make quick recordings of Google Voice and Skype interview calls as well as grabbing short audio snippets from the web or air checks of internet stations. Then I use Fission to make fast edits that don’t require re-encoding files, which is particularly helpful when working with compressed audio like MP3s.

Looking back to the early 2000s, before the idea of podcasts was mainstream, Kafasis says, “at the time, you actually needed a live Internet connection to listen to this stuff, so what people would do is make their own podcasts. It pointed the way to podcasts. It was a time where you had to sit down at your desk to listen to the audio, but people wanted to take it with them.”

He said that the big move into the mainstream when “95 percent of the world” knows about podcasting will happen when, “it becomes as easy to find a podcast as it is to find a radio dial in your car, I think that’s the point at which radio and podcasting becomes almost indistinguishable.”

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About Paul Riismandel

Paul Riismandel is co-founder and operations director of Radio Survivor. He is also the podcasting evangelist for Midroll Media, serving as producer for The Wolf Den podcast. Paul has more than 20 years of experience in non-commercial radio and instructional media. He is a contributing editor for Streaming Media Magazine, covering the education beat.